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Myctophum americanum
Taxonomy
Myctophum americanum was named by Frizzell and Dante (1965). It is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Highway 21, Stone City beds, which is in an Eocene marine shale in the Stone City Formation of Texas.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1965 | Myctophum americanum Frizzell and Dante p. 696 figs. Pl. 86, figs. 14-16 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Myctophum americanum Frizzell and Dante 1965
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: Middle Eocene or 48.07000 to 37.71000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Eocene | USA (Texas) | Myctophum americanum (type locality: 84145) | |
| Middle Eocene | USA (Texas) | Myctophum americanum (84144 84147) |